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Encephalartos horridus, the Eastern Cape blue cycad, [3] is a small, low-growing cycad up to 0.9 m (3.0 ft) high and 0.9 m (3.0 ft) wide. [4] It is a native of Eastern Cape Province , South Africa , and found in arid shrublands, most commonly on ridges and slopes with shallow soils.
Encephalartos is a genus of cycad native to Africa. Several species of Encephalartos are commonly referred to as bread trees , [ 2 ] bread palms [ 3 ] or kaffir bread , [ 4 ] since a bread-like starchy food can be prepared from the centre of the stem.
5.4 New Caledonia. 5.5 Vanuatu. ... Encephalartos hirsutus; Encephalartos horridus; ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Llangollen, which takes its name from the Welsh language and historic small Welsh market town of the same name (Llan meaning "Church; a religious settlement; or an enclosure" and Saint Collen, a 7th-century monk who founded a church beside the river), [2] was originally part of a 10,000-acre (40 km 2) land grant on which a two-story manor house was built in the late 1770s.
The longest leaflets are in the centre of the leaf, and the leaflets nearest the leaf base may be replaced by spines, a fact that distinguishes this cycad from the otherwise similar Encephalartos altensteinii. The Natal cycad is dioecious, having male and female cones on separate plants. The male cones are velvety and about 45 by 11 cm (18 by 4 ...
The only known wild plants of E. woodii were a cluster of four stems of one plant discovered by Wood in 1895 in a small area of Ngoya Forest, [7] now known by its proper Zulu name of oNgoye, which is in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [8] The site where this plant was found was on a steep south-facing slope [2] [4] on the fringes of the forest. [4]
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This is a tall, tree-like cycad plant with a stem that can be upright or lying down, reaching up to 4.5 m (15 ft) in height and 30 and 45 cm (12–18 in) in diameter. Its bright green, feather-like leaves grow in a cluster at the top of the trunk, each leaf being 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) long and supported by a 10–20 cm (4–8 in) long stalk ...